The Business School in the Twenty-First Century
Emergent Challenges and New Business Models

Three world experts share their insights on designing the business school of the future, and how to make it work.

Howard Thomas (Author), Peter Lorange (Author), Jagdish Sheth (Author)

9781107013803, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 July 2013

292 pages, 16 b/w illus. 17 tables
23.1 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.57 kg

'The performance of American business schools is coming under increasing scrutiny and skepticism, fueled in no small part by the unethical behavior of some their high-profile graduates. The schools themselves are being characterized as academic cash cows whose faculties suffer from physics envy. At the same time, the demand for business degrees has soared as the skyrocketing costs of a higher education drive parents to tell their offspring to use their undergraduate years as the means to a good job (as opposed to a good education). Meanwhile graduate school professors are teaching less while delivering their product for free on-line … As the authors of this remarkable compendium … conclude, the enterprise is now at a tipping (if not tripping) point. Their unprecedented, comprehensive, global perspective on the challenges facing business schools is scholarly, even-handed, and admirably practical.' James O'Toole, Daniels Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics, University of Denver

Questions about the status, identity and legitimacy of business schools in the modern university system continue to stimulate debate amongst deans, educational policy makers and commentators. In this book, three world experts share their critical insights on management education and new business school models in the USA, Europe and Asia, on designing the business school of the future, and how to make it work. They look at how the business school is changing and focus in particular on emergent global challenges and innovations in curricula, professional roles, pedagogy, uses of technology and organisational delineations. Set within the context of a wider discussion about management as a profession, the authors provide a systematic, historical perspective, analysing major trends in business school models, and reviewing a wealth of current literature, to provide an informed and unique perspective that is firmly grounded in practical and experimental analysis.

Preface: tipping or tripping? The business school and its dilemmas
1. The business school: history, evolution and the search for legitimacy
2. Business school identity and legitimacy: its relationship to the modern university and society
3. Rethinking management education and its models: a critical examination of management and management education
4. A framework for re-evaluating paradigms of management education
5. Evaluating new and innovative models of management education
6. Is the business school a professional firm? Lessons learned
7. Enhancing dynamic capabilities in the business school: improving leadership capabilities in curricula and management
8. Afterword: business school futures
Index.

Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]